Sr Software Engineer - Big Data at Verisign in Reston,Virginia,United States

Job description

• Verisign is looking for a Senior Engineer to join the Architecture and Infrastructure Team. In this role the Engineer will be responsible for implementing systems to gather and analyze large data sets representing network/application traffic flows, DNS and Web content data and much more to derive actionable operational and business intelligence.
• The ideal Engineer is an individual who can bring ideas from all areas, is proactive, has a strong sense of urgency and ownership, and is used to deal with distributed systems, large-scale system design, networking, data storage and security. The successful candidate will support the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software solutions in a collaborative Agile environment. This role provides an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience with modern software engineering practices, including software integration, vulnerability management, automated testing, and CI/CD pipeline development in a big data eco-system. Successful engineers will work closely with team members to master our software and make a positive impact on projects as well as team chemistry.
• Apply “Big Data” solutions to solve real customer problems using web content and traffic data
• Design, write, test, and maintain object-oriented software for collecting, storing, analyzing and reporting on big data sets, using Java, Python and various open-source technologies
• Work on systems with enormous data processing requirements and ensure all OLAs and SLAs are comfortably met
• Perform all aspects of system verification, including all phases of the testing process
• Work with application architects and developers to define test approaches, success criteria, and testing procedures to ensure quality in data, data processing, and interfaces
• Use industry best practices to deliver high-quality solutions leveraging open-source tools/toolkits and utilities with automated daily builds, tests, and deployment
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional organizations including system architects, project managers, product managers and operations
• Be a hands-on Engineer and lead by example to earn the respect as an effective technical leader
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing across the organization
• Takes ownership and responsibility for organizational practices and processes and their continuous improvement
• Leads incident response across the engineering organization as needed to troubleshoot challenging problems that involve virtual environments, networking, kernel configs, distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Implement systems to gather and analyze large data sets representing network/application traffic flows, DNS and Web content data
• Design, write, test, and maintain object-oriented software for collecting, storing, analyzing and reporting on big data sets, using Java, Python and various open-source technologies
• Work on systems with enormous data processing requirements and ensure all OLAs and SLAs are comfortably met
• Perform all aspects of system verification, including all phases of the testing process
• Work with application architects and developers to define test approaches, success criteria, and testing procedures
• Use industry best practices to deliver high-quality solutions leveraging open-source tools/toolkits and utilities with automated daily builds, tests, and deployment
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional organizations including system architects, project managers, product managers and operations
• Be a hands-on Engineer and lead by example to earn the respect as an effective technical leader
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing across the organization
• Take ownership and responsibility for organizational practices and processes and their continuous improvement
• Lead incident response across the engineering organization as needed to troubleshoot challenging problems that involve virtual environments, networking, kernel configs, distributed systems

Requirements

• Bachelor’s + 12 years OR Masters + 10 years of relevant work experience
• 8+ years of software development experience in a Unix environment
• Expert level programming experience with Java, Python or other equivalent programming language
• Experience with Big Data (Map reduce, Spark, etc) applications and jobs
• Experience with Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark and other Big Data Technologies
• Experience with testing systems from existing system and functional specifications
• Experience with performance testing and tuning of big data jobs
• Experience in data migration methodologies
• Experience with RDBMs, Timeseries DBs and/or NoSQL databases
• Experience working in Linux environment
• Experience with Automation frameworks/systems like Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins
• Experience with Private or Public Cloud environments and Cloud-native application architectures
• Experience working in highly productive team environments employing agile practices

Skills

Required

• Experience working in Linux environment

Benefits

• The pay range is $164,300 - $222,300.
• The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.